Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10456541 | Brain and Language | 2005 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
The role of sensory-motor representations in object recognition was investigated in experiments involving AD, a patient with mild visual agnosia who was impaired in the recognition of visually presented living as compared to non-living entities. AD named visually presented items for which sensory-motor information was available significantly more reliably than items for which such information was not available; this was true when all items were non-living. Naming of objects from their associated sound was normal. These data suggest that both information about object form computed in the ventral visual system as well as sensory-motor information specifying the manner of manipulation contribute to object recognition.
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Authors
David A. Wolk, H. Branch Coslett, Guila Glosser,